Posted on 10/01/2002 11:16:00 PM PDT by SheLion
Liberals, and their social engineering ruined California. Their smoking policies are just another nail in the coffin. I see you're pounding in some nails for them.
No smoking in restaurants is "another nail in the coffin?"
Is there any substance behind all that smoke?
I meant it was amazing that someone who's arguments had been so totally demolished still clung so tenaciously to the false premise.
I agree with your point about expecting it from certain circles. Witness those who have just showed up at the party with the turd for the punch bowl..LOL
Slavery was legal..
Laws don't define rights. Property rights are not at the whim of thugs.
You really want to have a discussion of rights? LOL, C'mon goofy, revert to form. Degrade to your usual rant
The subject of the thread is the rights of the property owner to allow a legal commodity to be consumed in their place of business.
Any thoughts on the subject?
After all the hypocrital posturing about changing the subject, you try to change the subject.
Sorry, no go.
California law says you can't smoke in a restaurant open to the public. The sky hasn't fallen in, your hyperventilating notwithstanding.
If the business is open to the public, it's gonna be regulated. In California no smoking is allowed where members of the general public are present.
Private clubs are another matter.
No one disputes that laws have been passed to suspend certain property rights. The thread is about property rights. Your attempts to change it notwithstanding.
Now why not change the thread into what you really have in mind?
Don't beg.
Do you have anything to say specific regarding "no smoking" laws?
Anything is allowed in private clubs? I'm glad to see you support that. LOL
The thread is over 250 posts long, try to keep up.
The "no smoking" proposal for Texas has already been successfully implemented here. No catastrophe, no apocalypse.
Wrong again.
Smoking cigarettes and cigars is frequently allowed.
Well now I've seen it all. A "conservative", on FR of all places, defending Davis and the People's Republik of Kalifornia's liberal laws.
Surreal.
Wrong again. California's laws restricting smoking in restaurants were around long before Davis.
So you change the subject to California at your whim? LOL
No catastrophe, no apocalypse.
The catastophe is that property rights have been suspended. I recognise that you concider that to be a positive and therefore cannot understand the catastrophe.
Now change the subject to what you really want, c'mon, it will make you feel better. I'm sure the veins are sticking out on your temples in anticipation. LOL
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